By now most of you will have become aware that the creator of X-Com, Julian Gollop is on Kickstarter hoping to fund his new project Chaos Reborn. This is exciting mostly because the game will be the first one he has made for the PC in about a decade, having been working with Ubisoft to develop games for handheld platforms since then. So what made him change his mind about handhelds being the last stronghold for turn-based strategy gaming?

In an interview with PCGamesN Gollop said that he felt PC had become home to complicated 4X games and war shooters, not leaving a lot of room for the sort of turn-based game that he was interested in. On the other hand the DS had Fire Emblem and others games that he was a fan of, and so found himself working as an independent developer and publisher at Ubisoft Sofia, where his last game was Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars a 3DS launch title.

Of course, now that the X-Com reboot has been a success with the game and its DLC gaining popularity for the turn-based strategy game again Gollop has decided to return to PC with Chaos Reborn. He was also very positive about Unity, which already supports the browser based prototype of Chaos.  “It has made this cross-platform development much, much more economical,” he says, hoping that Unity will allow for cross-platform play between PC and tablet versions of the game, commenting that the engine was becoming more of a platform in its own right in a sense.

The Kickstarter is still active and there’s still a little bit more needed to reach target so go give it a look and support it if you like turn-based games with a little luck thrown in for good measure.

Kickstarter is here.

Chaos Reborn browser version is here.